Endangered Languages Project - Tobati

Tobati

^{[aka Jotafa, Yotafa, Yautefa]}

Classification: Austronesian

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severely endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Jotafa, Yotafa, Yautefa, Humboldt Jotafa, Jayapura, Enggros, Tobwadic
CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, North New Guinea
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		tti
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Australia and the Pacific” (424-557) . Stephen A Wurm (2007) Routledge

Severely endangered

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<100
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 2007

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: It has been under very great pressure from Indonesian, due to its closeness to the capital.
More on Orthography: No literacy in it.

PLACES: Indonesia: Irian Jaya

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken in Jayapura Bay, close to Jayapura, the capital of Irian Jaya, especially southeast of it.

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
350
Native speakers worldwide

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
80
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
350
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Speaker number data: (M. Donohue 1998)

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: Papua, Indonesia;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Jayapura Bay, near Jayapura, Tobati, Enggros, Entrop, Kota Raja, Tanah Hitam villages.

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

-2.58333333333,140.666666667

COORDINATES

-2.6059,140.7997

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press